Was: Shuttleworth (SABDFL) wants to shutdown this ubuntu.user list
Rashkae
ubuntu at tigershaunt.com
Thu Sep 29 15:23:15 UTC 2011
The discussion that this thread has spawned has planted this great world
changing idea in my head. This is a desperately needed improvement for
mailman.
As I understand it, a large part of the problem with moderating the
mailing list is how limited moderation is (assuming the list remains
open vs. 100% moderated.) When someone sends an ill thought message,
it's already been received by every recipient. Moderators can only
admonish the sender or ban them from posting. Either way, the thousands
of people will continue replying to the original message. The result is
that every 'bad' message will inevitably snowball.
My idea is simply that mailman requires a function to 'lock a thread'.
When invoked by a moderator, any reply to any message in that discussion
thread gets rejected. I see no reason why this would not be relatively
trivial to implement. Sure, it would be easy for people to work around,
but only a few would, and those can be dealt with directly as
misbehaving agents. I think that effectively disabling people's 'reply'
button to an unwanted discussion thread would solve 90% of the problems
with a list like this.
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